Methodist Church

She came from the middle class, from a family with a strong Methodist tradition. In later life she became a believer in spiritualism. Her nephew called her quintessentially English in background and personality.

During the 1920s, LMM and her husband fought against the proposed merging of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches. In January 1925, the Leaksdale church, under the leadership of Macdonald, voted against union.

MAS was an earnest religious seeker. Brought up in the Society of Friends, she had years of doubt, of misery, of darkness, and became successively a Quaker , a Methodist , and finally a Moravian

Both parents came from Dissenting backgrounds; Ivy's maternal grandfather was a fervent Methodist . She herself, after inventing fictitious deities as a child and being baptised and confirmed in the Anglican church, chose from an...

In her late twenties, Susanna met Thomas Pringle , Methodist secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society in England, who influenced her involvement with the abolitionist movement and her decision to join a Nonconformist congregation near Reydon...

KR was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her...

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

She was already ageing when she had a conversion experience and joined a Christian sect, the Methodists or Moravians , when she happened to attend one of their services and heard the first prayers I...

JB was a Scottish writer: though she lived most of her adult life in London, her letters show her vividly aware of her Scots identity, not least in her deliberate use of the Scotticisms which...

Some years after this, one Christmas, attendance at a Methodist meeting at Date Hill in Antigua made a great impression on MP 's mind, and led my spirit to the Moravian church.

HC was an Evangelical, and may have been a Quaker or a Methodist .

Not much is known about her life. English, middle-class, and presumably white, she was raised in the Wesleyan church .

The Methodist Church had broken away from the Church of England in 1812, but it seems that five years later there was no gulf between the two groups, at least in the Caribbean.

At Cadiz in Spain, OE had a spiritual reawakening which he calls conversion, after which he worshipped as a Methodist as well as an Anglican . His conversion came as the climax and resolution...

HK converted from Methodism to Quakerism , to which she had been leaning for some time; she now applied to join the monthly meeting at Balby near Doncaster.